Mitch Watkins
Mitch Watkins was born on 1 August 1952 in McAllen, Texas, United States of
America, and is an American jazz guitarist and keyboardist. Watkins began piano
lessons at eight, switched to guitar at twelve, and a year later performed in a
surf-band covering The Ventures. After a brief stint at Texas Christian
University, he studied composition at the University of Texas, where he
gravitated toward jazz guitar and formed the fusion group Passenger. Passenger
toured Europe and Australia with Leonard Cohen in 1979. Watkins released
Underneath It All (1989) on Enja, followed by Curves (...
